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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56381 |
Category: | Red Hat Local Security Checks |
Title: | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0144 |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2006:0144. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the seventh regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. New features introduced by this update include: - addition of the bnx2, dell_rbu, and megaraid_sas device drivers - support for multi-core, multi-threaded Intel Itanium processors - upgrade of the SATA subsystem to include ATAPI and SMART support - optional tuning via the new numa_memory_allocator, arp_announce, and printk_ratelimit sysctls There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. There were numerous driver updates and security fixes (elaborated below). Other key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, the VM subsystem, NPTL handling, autofs4, the USB subsystem, CPU enumeration, and 32-bit-exec-mode handling on 64-bit architectures. The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions: aacraid -------- 1.1.5-2412 bnx2 ----------- 1.4.30 (new) dell_rbu ------- 2.1 (new) e1000 ---------- 6.1.16-k3 emulex --------- 7.3.3 fusion --------- 2.06.16.02 ipmi ----------- 35.11 megaraid2 ------ v2.10.10.1 megaraid_sas --- 00.00.02.00 (new) tg3 ------------ 3.43RH The following security bugs were fixed in this update: - a flaw in gzip/zlib handling internal to the kernel that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-2458,low) - a flaw in ext3 EA/ACL handling of attribute sharing that allowed a local user to gain privileges (CVE-2005-2801, moderate) - a minor info leak with the get_thread_area() syscall that allowed a local user to view uninitialized kernel stack data (CVE-2005-3276, low) Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that have not been addressed. All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2458 BugTraq ID: 14719 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14719 Debian Security Information: DSA-921 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-921 Debian Security Information: DSA-922 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10785 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16355/ http://secunia.com/advisories/16500 http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/18059 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18684 http://secunia.com/advisories/19252 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:050 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:068 (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1/ Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2801 BugTraq ID: 14793 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14793 http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2005-February/001848.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/08/msg00238.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10495 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17073 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:018 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3276 BugTraq ID: 15527 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15527 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9748 https://usn.ubuntu.com/219-1/ |
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